In the 1960s and 1970s, the rock opera concept album was a thing of beauty. Some of the greatest musical minds focused on creating records that not only boasted incredible songs but ones that had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two classic operas, a world premiere and a concert presentation of one of Puccini's early works make up the newly announced ...

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...

At the Glimmerglass Festival in upstate New York on July 19, one reviewer said the "knockout performance" was not a classic work, but rather an opera that has not yet been fully staged. It is called ...

In Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, about the search for the Holy Grail, a character sings about “enlightenment through compassion”. Wagner was the most theoretically ambitious of all opera composers ...

Southern California is home to many opera companies. There are dozens of regional companies of varying sizes and specialties. Two of them are recognized in the national and international opera scene: ...

Milwaukee's Florentine Opera will stage three classic operas during the upcoming 2026-'27 season. Two of these productions also will get entertaining visual makeovers. Here is a summary of the ...

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A blend of German music, Norse mythology and Virginia talent is coming to Norfolk later this month. Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre," or The Valkyrie, is a cornerstone of classic operas.